A video of China’s west part: Shan Xi province. Great change has taken place in this part of the country in the last 60 years, and big migration for millions of people due to economic reasons. This is a land with dramatic change almost every day, every hour.

改革开放给中国带来了翻天覆地的变化，这种变化也渗透到了西部和内地。在革命圣地延安，大量劳动力举家迁移，同时城市的面貌变化也日新月异，让人感觉难以跟上时代的节奏。

Blind Mountain  is a 2007 Chinese film directed by Li Yang and is Li’s first feature film since his 2003 debut Blind Shaft. It is also known as Road Home.

Like Li’s previous film, Blind Shaft, which dealt with the notoriously dangerous mining industry, Blind Mountain turns a sharply critical eye towards another one of China’s continuing social problems, this time selling women for marriage in modern day china.

Mardi Gras: Made in China – David Redmon – 2005

This film has zero narration and combines verite footage with sensitive interviews with four teenage workers in China who live inside a factory compound. They play with toys, jump rope, and dance. Yet, the majority of their days and nights consist of work, work, and work — but the footage of their work is illuminating and mesmerizing to watch. Continue (继续)

Up the Yangtze – Yung Chang – 2007

Up the Yangtze (pinyin: yánjiāng érshàng; literally “Along the River”) is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the transition towards consumer capitalism from a farming, peasant-based economy as China develops its rural areas. The film is a co-production between the National Film Board of Canada and Montreal’s EyeSteelFilm with the participation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Geographic Channel, P.O.V., SODEC, and Telefilm. The film is being distributed in the USA by Zeitgeist Films.